Legal Opinion
Tober v. Lang (In Re Tober)
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 10, 2012No. 11-60018, 11-60019PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Arizona Revised Statutes Section 33-1126(A)(6) and (7) allow a debtor in a bankruptcy proceeding to exempt the cash surrender value of life insurance policies and proceeds of annuity contracts from the bankruptcy estate if the debtor names certain beneficiaries. Arizona law requires us to construe these bankruptcy statutory exemptions in favor of the debt- or. As a matter of first impression in Arizona, we conclude that the statutory text does not require a debtor’s child to be a “dependent” to qualify for the exemption. Therefore, we REVERSE the Bankruptcy…
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